Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Man is not made better by being degraded.
[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.